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Message-ID: <20251007012504.16118-1-atomlin@atomlin.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 21:25:03 -0400
From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...mlin.com>
To: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
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dakr@...nel.org
Cc: riel@...riel.com,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 0/1] tick/nohz: avoid showing '(null)' if nohz_full= not set
In the context of CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, tick_nohz_full_mask (of type
cpumask_var_t) is initialised to 0. Memory is only allocated to the cpumask
data structure, when Linux kernel boot-time parameter "nohz_full=" is
correctly specified (see tick_nohz_full_setup() and housekeeping_setup()).
If "nohz_full=" is not set and an attempt is made to read
/sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full, '(null)' can be displayed:
❯ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full
(null)
This patch changes the output to print a newline (or 0x0A) instead of
'(null)', making it consistent with print_cpus_isolated() behaviour.
Changes since v1 [1]:
- Refactor to use an if statement (Greg KH)
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251006005824.76187-1-atomlin@atomlin.com/
Aaron Tomlin (1):
tick/nohz: avoid showing '(null)' if nohz_full= not set
drivers/base/cpu.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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2.49.0
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